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                            <h1>Don't Panic</h1>
                            <h2>My highlights from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</h2>
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                            <p>
                                &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Re-reading this fantastic book written by the late Douglas Adams puts a big smile on my face, heart and soul.
                                So, hoping it will do the same for you, here are my favorite highlights from the whole series.
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                                <li>It says that the effect of drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.</li>
                                <li>The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.</li>
                                <li>One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious,</li>
                                <li>If they don’t keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After</li>
                                <li>“Charming man,” he said. “I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one …”</li>
                                <li>“Please relax,” said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines, one of which is on fire, “you are perfectly safe.”</li>
                                <li>made what an outside observer would have thought was a heroic effort to cross the room.</li>
                                <li>She wished she knew what it was she was trying not to think about.</li>
                                <li>I wouldn’t be able to look for them.” “What, are you crazy?” “It’s a possibility I haven’t ruled out yet,”</li>
                                <li>Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.</li>
                                <li>“Look,” said Arthur, “would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”</li>
                                <li>“You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself?</li>
                                <li>It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.</li>
                                <li>It’s delicious if you happen to like that sort of thing.”</li>
                                <li>For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.</li>
                                <li>R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being and not being more than, say, five minutes late.</li>
                                <li>There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened.</li>
                                <li>In fact to see anything much uglier than a Vogon ship you would have to go inside it and look at a Vogon.</li>
                                <li>hideous to you that you will wish you had never been born—or (if you are a clearer minded thinker) that the Vogon had never been born.</li>
                                <li>in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds,</li>
                                <li>‘Life is wasted on the living.’</li>
                                <li>Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.</li>
                                <li>He was clearly a man of many qualities, even if they were mostly bad ones.</li>
                                <li>“Hi, guys, you must be so amazingly glad to see me you can’t even find words to tell me what a cool frood I am.”</li>
                                <li>“I know how you feel,” said Zaphod. “I’m so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself. Hey it’s good to see you Trillian, Ford, Monkeyman. Hey, er, computer</li>
                                <li>Arthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath.</li>
                                <li>term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.</li>
                                <li>“If you’ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?”</li>
                                <li>The suit into which the man’s body had been stuffed looked as if its only purpose in life was to demonstrate how difficult it was to get this sort of body into a suit.</li>
                                <li>“you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”</li>
                                <li>“Not only am I rich enough to afford this ship, I am also rich enough not to take it seriously.”</li>
                                <li>The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases.</li>
                                <li>“Basically, what you’re trying to say,” said Arthur Dent, ignoring this suggestion, “is that we’re out of control.”</li>
                                <li>Trillian had the fixed expressions of rabbits on a night road who think that the best way of dealing with approaching headlights is to stare them out.</li>
                                <li>I teleported home one night With Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggie’s heart away And I got Sidney’s leg.</li>
                                <li>People who can supply that amount of firepower don’t need to supply verbs as well.</li>
                                <li>the cat exhausted the entertainment possibilities of the speck of dust and</li>
                                <li>We were just about to do nothing at all for a while but it can wait.”</li>
                                <li>“Does it worry you that you don’t talk any kind of sense?”</li>
                                <li>Some people say her erogenous zones start some four miles from her actual body. Me, I disagree, I say five.”</li>
                                <li>the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusons</li>
                                <li>The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the check, the cost of each item, the number of people at the table and what they are each prepared to pay for.</li>
                                <li>Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe.</li>
                                <li>“you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.”</li>
                                <li>The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.</li>
                                <li>“They believe in ‘peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.’</li>
                                <li>They care, we don’t. They win.”</li>
                                <li>Very little is known of this, and less still said.</li>
                                <li>The winning team shall be the first team that wins.</li>
                                <li>In Relativity, Matter tells Space how to curve, and Space tells Matter how to move.</li>
                                <li>“Goosnargh,”</li>
                                <li>Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog</li>
                                <li>Bung a fork of lightning through this lot, he thought to himself, and you’d start the evolution of life off all over again.</li>
                                <li>He rounded on the doubting part of his audience, which was all of it,</li>
                                <li>needed deeply to go to bed with her as soon as was humanly possible.</li>
                                <li>wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.</li>
                                <li>so long one could hardly tell where all the time was coming from.</li>
                                <li>was hard to tell whether he was for or against it, but he clearly felt very strongly about it.</li>
                                <li>“Well, it’s sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It’s got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.”</li>
                                <li>every part of him screaming but his voice.</li>
                                <li>founded—their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.</li>
                                <li>It was quite definitely definite.</li>
                                <li>I wouldn’t be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.</li>
                                <li>Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.</li>
                                <li>Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else in life becomes eerily easy.</li>
                                <li>many of the company’s employees, the layout of their offices represented the only constant they knew in a severely distorted personal universe.</li>
                                <li>What King Antwelm had assumed was that what everybody wanted, all other things being equal, was to be happy and enjoy themselves and have the best possible time together.</li>
                                <li>Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.</li>
                                <li>All that robots needed was the capacity to be either bored or happy, and a few conditions that needed to be satisfied in order to bring those states about. They would then work the rest out for themselves.</li>
                                <li>It had to want not to know about</li>
                                <li>perfectly normal people had been observed invariably to develop when elected to high political office.</li>
                                <li>You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be</li>
                                <li>judged against the quality of life they actually lead.</li>
                                <li>We like to be on one side, and look at the other.”</li>
                                <li>So we’ll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh? Well, business as usual, I suppose.”</li>
                                <li>“You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.”</li>
                                <li>You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.”</li>
                                <li>‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.</li>
                                <li>‘Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.’</li>
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